The state Intermediate Court of Appeals on Wednesday sent the case back to circuit court. The Garden Island reports the ruling says the lower court was wrong to rule that insurers had no duty to defend against property damage.

Retired car dealer and landowner James Pflueger pleaded last month in the criminal case. He accepted a deal to plead no contest to reckless endangering in exchange for dropping seven manslaughter counts.

There's a $30,000 reward for information leading to the conviction of a bank robbery trio known as the Black Hat Bandits, suspected in a two-month string of robberies across Maryland and Virginia, the latest coming Monday.